The BJP central leadership has convened the first meeting of new team of office bearers at the party headquarters on Saturday, Aug 22.
Sources said the old office bearers - at least a select few - are also expected to attend. Among others it will be addressed by party president Nitin Nabin and also BJP general secretary (Organisation) B L Santhosh.
Nitin Nabin has kept a new team mostly but retained a number of time-tested old timers notwithstanding their limitations and controversies.
The revamp charted out by PM Narendra Modi along with Amit Shah and Nitin Nabin represents a significant generational and strategic reset at least in numbers.
The party has ensured 51 of the 65 office-bearers to be new faces and there are 10 women faces including Vasundhara Raje Scindia.
The elevation of Tariq Mansoor and Basit Ali from poll-bound Uttar Pradesh signaled a renewed effort to reach sections of Muslim voters, particularly as caste and sect-based identities reshape the community’s electoral politics.
Muslims account for roughly 20 per cent of the state’s population and are electorally significant across several regions. The BJP has repeatedly attempted in recent years to reach sections of the community, particularly Pasmanda Muslims — socially and economically marginalised groups within the Muslim community.
The elevation of Mansoor and Ali gives that outreach a more visible organisational face. But the strategy goes beyond Uttar Pradesh.
The BJP president's new team retains several old faces while bringing back likes of articulate leaders Smriti Irani and Ram Madhav.
To some analysts; the BJP rejig is hardly a message for rebuilding the party for the next 10 years or so. The big-picture message is that Amit Shah, Union Minister for Home Affairs and former BJP president, will keep running the show.
Skeptics say, Nitin Nabin may continue to be a lacklustre and rubber-stamp party president.
There was no mega surprise in “Team Nabin.”
Stale headlines came about everywhere about Ram Madhav’s return, but he is only a vice president. In BJP's scheme of things; vice president's post does not hold much political influence.
Even as general secretaries, there are two old names — Biplab Kumar Deb and Smriti Irani. Deb was shunted out of Tripura as a salvage-mission to save the state government in the state. Deb is too eager to go back for the prized fiefdom; but Amit Shah and Nitin Nabin are not willing to oblige him.
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Smriti Irani was allegedly over ambitious but apparently, she may now find a larger space to take on Rahul Gandhi personally. Much to her credit of course, she had humbled Congress dynast at Amethi in 2019.
From the north east, Nagaland MP Phangnon Konyak and Mriganka Deo Barman of Assam have made it to the national team besides Biplab Deb.
The basic differences between the BJP and the Congress can be understood on two factors -
-- one, the Lotus party is always in an election-preparation phase and secondly, -- while the battle is on it would apply new strategies and methodologies.
In other words, it may not be too keen to fight the new battles exactly as it fought the previous ones.
With Congress - generally it is not prepared in the organisation to fight elections and secondly - it would in all probability depend on old and time tested strategies only. Based on these assumptions, it would be worthwhile to examine the BJP's new plans vis-a-vis the Nabin Team and also the assignments given to the new office bearers.
As many as 8 leaders from Uttar Pradesh have been taken in the new national organisation. Hence, without doubt winning Uttar Pradesh will be important. But there is pressure.
It has won last two assembly polls - 2017 and 2022 and there will be anti incumbency and the law of the average working against the BJP.
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